Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Can you guys help me with a math research paper?

i have to do 3000 words research paper on math. if you guys have ever done any can you email it to me so i can take a look at it. thank you.


anything on math such as philosophers, definitions and history.

Can you guys help me with a math research paper?
I did a paper on the History of 0,1, and infinity for a grad school paper. It worked out really well. There is a lot of history of how different societies developed mathematics and accepted fractions, algebra. Good luck!
Reply:I don't have any papers you could copy, but here are some paper topic ideas:





* Why aren't we allowed to divide by zero?





* What happens when you divide zero by zero? (Maybe combined with the first one, above)





* What is so special about prime numbers?





* Who was Pythagoras, anyway? Why did Zeno want to disprove his theory so badly?





* What is a natural log?





Hope these give you some ideas!





Barjesse37
Reply:1. Continued Fractions. Which are periodic, why do they give good rational approximations to real numbers, what is the relationship to the Euclidean algorithm?





2. The Ackermann function, as a way to describe *very* large numbers. Can you use it to describe how many atoms are in the universe, etc.?





3. The Cantor Set, other fractals





4. "Constructible numbers": via ruler and compass, or origami





5. Conway's Surreal numbers





6. Siteswap notation for juggling





7. Polyhedra, star polyhedra, symmetries, Hilbert's 3rd problem, 4 dimensional polyhedra, etc.





8. Wallpaper symmetries, penrose tilings, crystallographic groups





9. Latin squares and their relation to Sudoku





10. Knots and braids





11. Catalan numbers





12. Mersenne primes, perfect numbers, Fermat numbers





13. The Brachistochrome problem





14. p-adic numbers





15. Quaternions, Octonions, and Sedenions





Let us know which one you pick!

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